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CONVERSION
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table of contents
  1. CANE
  2. FOREWORD
  3. CONTENTS
  4. KARINTHA
  5. REAPERS
  6. NOVEMBER COTTON FLOWER
  7. BECKY
  8. FACE
  9. COTTON SONG
  10. CARMA
  11. SONG OF THE SON
  12. GEORGIA DUSK
  13. FERN
  14. NULLO
  15. EVENING SONG
  16. ESTHER
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
  17. CONVERSION
  18. PORTRAIT IN GEORGIA
  19. BLOOD-BURNING MOON
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
  20. SEVENTH STREET
  21. RHOBERT
  22. AVEY
  23. BEEHIVE
  24. STORM ENDING
  25. THEATER
  26. HER LIPS ARE COPPER WIRE
  27. CALLING JESUS
  28. BOX SEAT
    1. 1
    2. 2
  29. PRAYER
  30. HARVEST SONG
  31. BONA AND PAUL
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
    4. 4
  32. KABNIS
    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
    4. 4

CONVERSION

African Guardian of Souls,
Drunk with rum,
Feasting on a strange cassava,
Yielding to new words and a weak palabra
Of a white-faced sardonic god—
Grins, cries
Amen,
Shouts hosanna.

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